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Sunday, December 24, 2006
Draft Obama ad set to air in Hawaii
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In between football games and holiday programming, Sen. Barack Obama might see a television ad urging him to jump into the 2008 presidential race while he vacations in Hawaii over the holidays. DraftObama.org, a grassroots organization urging the Illinois Democrat to run for president, will begin airing an ad in Obama's birth state of Hawaii, the group announced Friday. The ad is currently airing on local cable in New Hampshire and Washington, D.C. as well as on New Hampshire station WMUR in what a spokeswoman called a "moderate rolling ad buy." Called "Believe Again," the ad scrolls through still photographs of Obama while clips his from past speeches are played. It begins with the words "We can replace fear with hope," and ends with "Believe again." The group says the ad will now run on "several stations in Honolulu" and is timed to coincide with Obama annual trip there. "All I really want for Christmas this year is for Barack Obama to run for president," Ben Stanfield, founder of DraftObama.org, said in a statement. -- CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
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